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by AlotOfReading 154 days ago
Not to mention that prizes can't be revoked.
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Yeah, I realise the Nobel prizes cannot be revoked. It was sarcasm.

But let's hear it from the horse's mouth..

The secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, wrote in his memoir that the decision “did not achieve what the committee had hoped for”, and that “in hindsight the argument … was only partially correct.”